Data Center Rebuild

[@mattmurphy1065]

It may not have ended up pristine, but as someone who often goes into rooms like this, it’s a hell of a lot better. I can appreciate the work for sure.

[@SystemMTUOne]

Appreciate the kind words!

[@dismanca]

Oh the challenges we all face in networking. Too often the wrong lengths of cables are purchased, available and used. Too often there is not enough smart cable management trays both horizontal and vertical. Too often almost anyone is granted access to the room to "just run one patch cable" to connect "X" device. If feel your pain and have spent many long hours doing exactly what this video demonstrates. The best environment I have been inside is an IBM "lights out" datacener. All of the racks where 4 post secure cabinets controlled by RFID card readers and numeric touch pad. If you were not granted access to the cabinet you couldn't open it. If you were granted access it was time controlled and you had to use coloured cables they provided. You were required to labled each end with a number and the number had to be recorded on a chart that told the next person in what exactly that number was for and where it was connected. If you didn't follow those rules all of your work was removed and you had to schedule it again.

[@ananomaus]

Nothing more annoying than "Just one patch cable"

[@daven4005]

> If you didn't follow those rules all of your work was removed and you had to schedule it again. But but that cable was for the CEO's new personal laser printer, it can't have downtime. The company's very existence depends on those documents being printed and posted on time! (/s)

[@richardwarfield7386]

I do this for a living. As a data contractor the worlds greatest invention of all time - the 1 foot patch cord !

[@BlueDippy]

What’s the pay range

[@theanteaterparadox344]

pry off the insulation, peel back the silver foily thing, carefully remove a tad of the inner silicone insulation to expose the copper soul, attach COAX plug, do the same at the other side, throw cable in box cut another 100 cm length, repeat process about 20 times /hour for 8 hours, no less than 120 lengths/day for 3 months My summer job in 1984....

[@henrythompson7595]

I too, did this for a living, except all router and switch ports were PERMANENTLY wired to 110 blocks on a backboard, all work stations and PBX/phone jack wired to backboard, when changes needed, just change or add a cat5 twisted pair cross connect. Never ever had a rats nest like this again once we started doing this. The data center was very large, several 7000 series Cisco switches and routers. Patch cords not allowed....ever! Our data center had more that one main frame computer, and several hundred file servers.

[@thomasshi9138]

@@henrythompson7595 cat5? In a data center?

[@cyclopsvision6370]

If it was one foot total, then it would have been out of spec. Those short blue cables you see are connected to the 110 block, which I'm assuming lead somewhere else that is longer than 2 feet.

[@tpgoat]

When the video started I thought it was going to be cleaned up by the end, glad I skipped most of the video, it was quit disappointing.

[@guhanv7388]

Me too.

[@Angel-yi5ov]

This comment should be pinned.

[@travislenker9994]

Typical half assed job, likely at a school district. See it every day. Plan accordingly, schedule the maintenance window accordingly and do the job right or gtfo. Don't get me wrong, its a good start but why spend all that effort and not finish. And god, people putting their cores on the floor rubs me the wrong way.

[@trs-80fanclub12]

No pride, just looking for the check. What a way to display your talent. Don't apply for a job in my department. I don't hire slackers

[@lucaslagarto2569]

No one would ever watch this shit without skipping...

[@electechyt]

So satisfying watching someone else doing it! Good video

[@johnqsak]

At first I thought this was a video of a Italian restaurant showing how they hang dry their homemade noodles.

[@hanro50]

I'll admit... It looks like the Italian restaurant next door had a "accident"

[@notactive9473]

ah, yes. the mystical blue, red, and green spaghet noodles, just like mama mia used to make.

[@jrcogburn]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA -thank you bro -fukin IT humor made my day better

[@francescomattiussi]

Do Italian restaurants have noodles? In italy we hate them

[@granttaylor1790]

Glad I read your post skiiiiiiiiiip!

[@officialak47buda63]

Someone would say, Ethernet cables don’t matter what interfaces you use. But with these many, there are Mac tables, which could be so many entries por the table to collapse and causing a failure in network, truly experts these fellas

[@lylestavast7652]

Well Chuck Kelly and Rob Windsor, you did a stellar job for us back in 1997 with something that looked this bad (or worse) and added up-time and stability along the way. Thanks for letting me help as your manager.

[@lowvoltagedude7837]

I love work like this. Normally a job like this we would do over a weekend and do first day of service just in case a few things aren't up monday.

[@smilingipad3044]

Every time I eat spaghetti, I arrange it in straight lines because I am inspired by this video.

[@majito0727]

me 2

[@kerbygator]

Legend has it that the guy's still working on it.

[@Eclipce051]

Every time I need inspiration I come to this video

[@mindasb]

... moms spaghetti, but on the surface he looks calm and ready.

[@sameetpatil_5]

Underrated comment

[@DJaquithFL]

I own a Data Center .. this is a Server Room. Here's a quote from one of Amazon's engineers, so if for some reason you disagree take it up with them. "A data center is a facility where the entire structure’s function is primarily to house network equipment. A large server room inside a corporate building may have all the same equipment, right down to cooling and electrical, but the purpose of the building is something different and has a large server room inside of it."

[@indeepjable]

So This Is A Data-Center Type Server-Room, Essentially A Mini-Data-Center?

[@FainTMako]

Okay, I missed the part where its standard to build rats nests.

[@wassaa3739]

wtf it's not finish

[@saturn0660]

thats what i was thinking

[@melmels1337]

they left. resigned.

[@whistlinturbo]

When your parents tell you to clean your room so you make a path through the mess from the door to your bed.

[@lookatthis4701]

Wow that cable managment do 🤯🤯💥💥💥💥

[@vertujoe2886]

My back sores just by looking at it. This guy must have a heavy duty spine.

[@GothGuy885]

before you guys did the cable management and equipment upgrades, this rack looked like "Explosion at the spaghetti factory" great work guys! 😀👍

[@jonakers704]

I have had to deal with similar monsters like this, and I still have one rack that, while I would love to re-cable the lower half of it, we cannot justify the cost of doing so. The problem with that rack is that the guy that installed the cabling used 5m infiniband cables where 1m and 2m cables would have been sufficient, so there is a ton of extra cable just sort of stuffed wherever. Unfortunately the cost of replacing those cables for just sixteen nodes is in the range of $1-2k, and it just isn't worth it.

[@surftec]

Jon Akers I've never understood the logic of such long cables. If it's being lazy when ordering it really makes the job far longer and harder during install.

[@jonakers704]

It was a case of a decision to move the servers to a different rack after we had already received them, and using what we had on hand to wire them up. The distances changed, and the cost for getting the right cables was a bit steep. Since we were able to keep the cables contained within the rack doors, we have basically said it will be there until we retire those nodes.

[@gwhunter07]

Is it not possible to just cut the ends and put new connectors on? Or is that not allowed? While it would be a bit tedious. The cost for a box of RJ-45 connectors is pretty cheap and the crimpers aren't to bad either. Surely alot cheaper than $1-2k

[@dylandrouin3085]

its infiniband, they`re not rj-45 connectors

[@udirt]

FYI: I ordered my IB cables from a store in Rotterdam (major shipping port for north europe?) and they ran like $40 a piece. Cutting out a few intermediaries seems to have helped. Would still leave you at a few $$$ but better. also, the cable routing matters. one place I was at initially had HVD SCSI cables, 25m long, and thicker than IB. There was many dozen of those, and _zero_ mess nonetheless, it was set up by some good techs by EMC^2 and they just spiralled them in the right place.

[@Jon.......]

Yes, I did read the FAQ's. Assuming they do use labels ... I hope that there usage is at the opposite end of the quality scale as compared to cable management. I'm guessing this is a colo cage where the actual client visits buts once a year (if that) and simply has vendors and contractors (that both have a high turnover rates) do all of manual work. If it's the onsite data center team "magic hands" crew doing the work, I'm speechless!

[@SystemMTUOne]

Not a colo. On prem at their site. All staff that touched it were direct full time employees.

[@suharijabon1869]

Wooo...very talented skillfull tehnician, able to fix messy cable in very fast movement 😀😀😀

[@plyzmaz]

Tanto exforço, o video acaba e ainda não tem um fim satisfatório.

[@elb4neado]

No commentary, just perfect

[@jonasresilva]

Roy? Moss? 😂🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Beautiful Job

[@Penfold8]

That paper flapping around on the cabinet side drove me nuts!!!!

[@kothaloas2179]

this is who we are and this what we do... you should see telecom termination panels in India. great job... for the people who think it can done better its not so easy as we speak. apparently this person did it without any down time and thats very important otherwise we may require down time of 2 to 3 days.

[@jamesgaudio466]

Exactly!!

[@theprocrastinator2232]

Saw the comment from 4y ago w/ 1k likes, as the title states... REBUILD.. and not cable management aesthetic video... but clearly the ones who made that comment have no idea what goes around the data center and thats fine... if they only knew what the IT section has to go through even if one switch has to be replaced with a new one.. but yk, no one knows it all, nor anyone is perfect... gotta love it tho, working all those hours and allat, thumbs up and kudos to you!!

[@mukinha]

This guy needs a medal!

[@paulomenezes3400]

Technicians work hard in the data center congratulations

[@lQuadXl]

*Looks like somebody's having spaghetti for dinner in the server room!*

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Awards for that type of show room's.

[@cheif10thumbs]

How I spent 1993-2003. Doing EXACTLY what's in this video. Intel, HP, Weyerhauser, Boeing, General Dynamics, LANL, LLNL, Pacificorp, USBank, and MANY more........

[@joemarz2264]

This must be one of the most fascinating jobs that a human being can do!!!

[@FainTMako]

Its really not. Looking at the old cables is depressing for many reasons if you actually take the time to consider how it got to that state, one cable at a time and how that was allowed. And then there is a video of a person "fixing" the problem using pretty much the same paradigms as what started the problem. Its almost impossible to believe people get paid for work like this but they do... Yeah its not fascinating, its like saying wiring all the fuses in a car yourself must be fascinating'

[@LDrumsOhio]

A master at work.

[@srish249]

It looks much better. However, it is not done. That would not fly in my MDF...

[@SystemMTUOne]

Sadly I left the company before I was able to truly finish it up. I was able to clean a few more things up after the end of this video, but nothing as large as the initial clean-up.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

stunod7 Fired for changing the cables from yellow to blue?

[@udirt]

guessing from initial state it was probably for the wiser to just leave than try fighting windmills :-)

[@BCTAHbKA]

هذا أفضل فيديو على الإطلاق

[@marty5300]

Lol that spaghetti monster looks like our network closets at my work. There's nothing like not being able to live 100lbs of patch cables high enough to see if port 34 on blade 7 is active or not.

[@JanEringa8k]

Well done guys. It's always satisfying to see a cable monster tamed... At least for a while :) How long did it stay tidy!

[@SystemMTUOne]

Hard to say for sure. I actually left that position before I was totally finished with the clean-up job. The far left rack still had more work to be done. That was supposed to be the internet zone but there were a few other devices in there that I wanted to relocate to the server row, which would have been to my back. A few more months and I would have had that area totally cleaned but sometimes you go where the jobs take you.

[@jairparreiras7649]

Cara, esse aí conseguiu fazer mais gambiarra do que eu!🤩

[@Moppup]

Fantastic job! Looks way better!

[@rodrigoribeiro6632]

If hell exists, it looks like this. And when you're done and look back, the mess comes back and you have to clean up again. (FOREVER)

[@Sojuzkarta_82]

Una tarea de mucho tiempo y mas que nada mucha paciencia y empeño, TI de Centro de de Datos ya veo que no es nada fácil, buen trabajo mi estimado.

[@frankperdomo102]

this video with Benny Hills theme song in the background would have been the bomb xD

[@drawingtheways3601]

LOL

[@CodeAsm]

open this in another tab and enjoy XD kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKnShqCeZ6t2jpY

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Five star recruiters nice recruitment a couple of days later good morning good working with you

[@locklock8845]

Respect! Professional! But normal people never knows.

[@jackofnone599]

Praise be the pastafarian, for you have excised a false idol of the spaghetti monster 🙏

[@aravindsankaranaorist]

Reminded me of the haricut I had after college.

[@SeanOliver5981]

Whoever did the original install is clearly lazy along with any of techs that came to repair. The new install is much cleaner and well much easier to deal with for any future fixes.

[@digitalradiohacker]

Or - Did someone in "Sales" order everything, and then pass the job on to engineering to unfuck?

[@michaelbyrd4004]

It is a shame that this room was this way. I have seen and worked with several functioning disasters like this. I certainly appreciate the cleanup. Thanks for the video.

[@bg73]

That piece of paper flapping in the wind would have pissed me off in the first 5 minutes. Stick it down! :)

[@SystemMTUOne]

Ha. You know what, it was so loud in there I didn't even notice it except for when I would be walking past.

[@n10cities]

Exactly stunod7, In most data centers you have great big Liebert AC unit(s) roaring, as well as a bunch of blade servers running (sound like jet engines almost), so you can't hear squat.

[@Peteveneno]

Root password

[@ahnilatedahnilated7703]

When this was "done", I think it still needed a lot more wire routing cleanup.

[@SystemMTUOne]

I don't disagree with you. A few more months with the company and I would have been able to polish it up a bit more.

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Nice really nice team's.

[@CHGOfficial512]

From spaghetti bowl, to mostly clean server rack

[@jetroompoc3736]

Me: where's the power supply wire? Coworker : the yellow wire 😒

[@marshallshelton6262]

Gotta love still having to wear "business casual" while doing essentially manual work inside a data center.

[@IgnaceLaplaese]

very satisfying

[@abelmendezuh]

Y Proto HW & Tec mira bro, y tú quejandote por los del gabinete jeje saludos. Excelente gestión de cables.

[@evdiegoth]

Excelente? No terminó

[@ClaytonCannon]

What is that tool that you are using on each of the cables during the configuration documentation portion?

[@frietpan8917]

Looks like the cable management in my pc.

[@charadremur333]

Which one?

[@charadremur333]

Oh nvm

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Multiple dialers beautiful moms waiting to have.

[@ArtamisBot]

That spaghetti was physically painful to witness. And such a relief to see it disappear...

[@jaumakis]

give a medal to that man

I think that at the beginning the tag on the right top should say "horrortronic" or something like that! 😂😂😂

[@Angel-VTek]

what kind of engineer do this type of working? electronic and telecommunications? or systems administrator? I'd like to get a job like the one in this video, it's so relaxing for me and enjoyable

[@Angel-VTek]

@maverickM249 i never said it was easy. I mean, it's maybe hard in a certain way, but i like it, doesnt matter how hard it is

[@KeivanDjafarizad]

This is my kind of ASMR

[@lavadude6492]

with the amount of yellow cables, it literally makes it look like pasta noodles

[@xfudox]

heroes don't always wear capes

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

With clean design

[@artangjeli]

my impression is that it looks to be a real mess with cables instead of putting all equipments side by side. what kind of work is that?

[@HunterZero80]

is there a part 2 cause it still looks bad but way better

[@tricky778]

"just a trim off the back, please, barber"

[@NeoTheOne41]

What a turnaround

[@BixbyConsequence]

Pastafarian school of cable management.

[@juansaydeflores890]

pool noodles and velcro, lots and lots of velcro

[@Solidfire]

Holy Cable Monsters!

[@throughthestorm3852]

You forgot to end with, “Batman!”

[@Red1Wollip]

May the force be with you......

[@JID01]

I admire you...I would have set the place on fire and started fresh...

[@jonharson]

Ho gawd! I will no longer complain about the state of our server room after having seen this disgusting mess. The giant spaghetti monster is real folks.

[@Just_A_Toaster852]

When your bed room looks like that but your the only one in the house who uses computers

[@roykeng6976]

we were working on it once.9 persons pulled 2 days and nights efforts on 27 IDF, 4509 x12, 6513 x2. only slept for 6 hours.

[@mrrobertwolfiii1079]

Getting really worked with upgrades

[@brianlee1012]

Oh~ pasta! I like it!

[@manuelarnoldoaldanaalegria1584]

Que bien ordenados. Exelente

[@marksnexus]

Would have been nice to see it clean and finished

[@mikeE0055]

Just the indication of the air flow in there make my ears ring.

[@aguyandhiscomputer]

Some hedge trimmers would have been good.

[@hamoudanachat6452]

Good job

[@oleksandrlytvyn532]

Good job 👍

[@paulmoadibe9321]

been there, done that

[@tornadokat]

Me too for single racks at multiple locations. It was like pulling teeth to convince them they needed to spend $400 or $500 per rack for half foot and one foot cables to fix it , even after I told them they pay us more than $500 in time wasted tracking down cables (they would activate and deactivate wall jacks as people moved around because they would not buy enough switches to make every jack live ). They also did not want unused jacks live for security reasons. It would have been much more time efficient to have all jacks connected and just activate/deactivate ports on the switches remotely which is even better when a tech is sick or on vacation and another tech in another city is covering.

[@n10cities]

Same here, not a fun chore that is for sure. In my old Data Center gig, we always used pre-made patch cabling so you had to guess what length cord you needed. Sometimes the server was two cabinets away from the switch and other times the server was across the room! I was lazy, so I always erred on using a cable that was too long rather than too short and having to pull it back out and try another one. And if you didn't use snagless cables, oh Jesus help me now! Would have been nice if we could have terminated the cabling ourselves and avoid the rat's nest that this guy started with.

[@kinficher]

What cutting cable? Yellow!

[@Very_SpicyUser]

This is how my gaming room setup was like:

[@zombieolta]

I think you did a fine job given whatever circumstances.

[@SystemMTUOne]

Andrew Oltmanns That makes one person! Maybe two... thank you!

[@bradleyhagy3253]

@@SystemMTUOne Don't let anyone tell you you did wrong, sometimes we have to work with what we have. Great cleanup.

[@robertheffernan2756]

Prom a practical perspective this is about as good as you could get it cleaning up that mess. It's a damn sight better that it was to begin with but with all those services coming up and down as each patch cable is swapped out there was enough disruption going on. It would take a VERY tolerant employer to allow you to tidy that up any further.

[@jimshaw597]

I don't buy it, nothing more than an excuse. Plenty of time to plan before a core upgrade. Clean the cables up in advance & get the room RIGHT. Reduces time & risk during the upgrade by at least 50%.

[@rickmartin6817]

Set the playback speed to 2X and watch him really go!

[@Technosupportdriversolution]

Woooooow wonderful your video guys

[@Lykos-i2m]

The Network Masters!

[@Jay482]

Me thinking of getting into networking. After seeing this , I’m doubting it now 😂. I would panic seeing all those spaghetti cords like that.

[@duniaintermezzo]

Wooww.. Amazing.. 😯😯😯

[@richarddoran4378]

looks like fun